K-type star · orange

HR 4482

HR 4482 is an orange in the constellation Ursa Major 809 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,077 K, about 0.7 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 163× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 809 years ago.

809 lybrightness mag 6.29K2III

Also catalogued as HD 101151 · HIP 56784

4,077 K
temperature
6.29
apparent magnitude
163× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
K2III
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
809 years
at light speed from Earth
0.71×
as hot as the Sun
163×
the Sun's light output
-0.68
absolute magnitude
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Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Ursa Major

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.